Gareth Morgan’s Lexis is the culmination of nearly 50 years of Greek pedagogy at the University of Texas at Austin newly updated for the 21st century. It applies principles of the inductive reading approach to instruction not only of syntax but also of morphology. Notably, it relies heavily on morphophonemic analysis (in short, what markers go where when constructing a word) so that students learn to predict and deconstruct final forms with far less reliance on prescribed charts traditionally requisite for reading Greek. The approach makes a range of Greek dialects accessible, so the book is suited for students and teachers with any interest, from Homer to Koine and everything between. To quote Stanley Lombardo, a student of Gareth Morgan’s original Lexis, “this stuff really works.”

An Online Thesaurus of Teaching Material is available for teachers using the book. Please contact me for details. It includes discussion of the book’s pedagogy, suggested schedules for regular track and intensive courses, detailed lesson plans, and supplementary exercises.

For those curious about morphophonemics and using a linguistics approach to teach ancient languages, see the working bibliography at my new project, Reading Morphologically, here.